Re: XMLRPC Solution Code

Steve Holden wrote: > dylpkls91 wrote: > > > > The hard part now is getting the server code to run as a Windows > > service- argh!!! > > I can get it installed and started using modified code from: > > http://www.schooltool.org/products/schooltool-calendar/documentation/how-to/running-as-a-windows

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, tac-tics wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> for pete's sake use the comparison operator like god intended. >> >> if 0 <= i <= 1: > > I'm assuming you used Python's compound comparison as opposed to the > C-style of and'ing two comparisons together to emphasize the fa

Re: Coding style

Carl Banks wrote: > > Peter Otten wrote: >> Carl Banks wrote: >> >> > def process_values(lst): >> > if not lst: >> > return >> > do_expensive_initialization_step() >> > for item in lst: >> > do_something_with(item) >> > do_expensive_fina

Re: function v. method

danielx wrote: > This is still a little bit of magic, which gets me thinking again about > the stuff I self-censored. Since the dot syntax does something special > and unexpected in my case, why not use some more dot-magic to implement > privates? Privates don't have to be entirely absent from Klas

Re: XMLRPC Solution Code

> I'm afraid you'll need to Google for "python windows service" or > similar: in essence the main thing the service has to do (besides serve) > is ensure a continuous flow of messages through the system. It's ugly, > but people have done it before. > Also don't forget to "Allow the service i

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

On 2006-07-17, Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AP) wrote: > >>AP> On 2006-07-14, Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just read what it says. `It is only evaluated once' is quite clear I would say. > >>AP> If it is so clear, w

Re: function v. method

danielx wrote: Foo.func = dan# <-- Appearantly, something magical happens here, because... Foo.func > f = Foo.func f is dan # <-- things begins to look suprising here. > False ismethod(f) > True > > Imagine my surprise. Why would Python do this? > Not

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Re: Google Earth contact? (OT, sort of...)

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Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Creating and then searching a 10,000 element list to see if a > number is between two other numbers is insane. > Using xrange as somebody else suggested is also insane. Aye to both > If you want to know if a number is between two other numders, > f

Re: function v. method

danielx wrote: > At first I was going to post the following: > > > (snip) > > > > but then I tried this: > > res = Foo.__dict__['func'] res is dan > > True > > And it all started to make sense. The surprising thing turned out to be > not so surprising: When the expression Foo.func

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Re: Coding style

tac-tics wrote: >>Or even just: >> >>lst = [] >> >>;-) > > > Indeed. > > I'd say the second one. And you'd be plain wrong. > Empty lists are not false. In a bolean context, empty containers (lists, tuples, dicts, sets etc), empty strings, integer 0, float 0.0 and None are all false. This is

Re: Accessors in Python (getters and setters)

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > mystilleef wrote: > Please don't top-post > > On State and Behavior: > > > > To understand objects in terms of state and behavior you need to > > absolve yourself from implementation details of languages > > and think at an abstract level. > > > > > Take a button objec

Re: Coding style

tac-tics wrote: > dwelch91 wrote: > >>tac-tics wrote: >> >>>I'd say the second one. Empty lists are not false. They are empty. Long >>>live dedicated boolean data types. >>> >> >>Uh, no, empty lists are False in a boolean context: >> >>http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html >> >>-Don > > > Perhap

Re: Coding style

dwelch91 wrote: > PTY wrote: > >> Which is better? >> >> lst = [1,2,3,4,5] >> >> while lst: >> lst.pop() >> >> OR >> >> while len(lst) > 0: >> lst.pop() >> > > I think the first one is better, but if all you are doing is removing > all the items in the list, this is definitely better: > > ls

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Re: Accessors in Python (getters and setters)

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > mystilleef wrote: > > Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > > > >>On 2006-07-15 06:55:14, mystilleef wrote: > >> > >> > >>>In very well designed systems, the state of an object should only be > >>>changed by the object. > >> > >>IMO that's not quite true. Ultimately, the state alwa

Re: Google Earth contact? (OT, sort of...)

Bell, Kevin! > Does anyone know a contact for anyone that works for Google Earth? I > wanted to shoot 'em an email about a possible enhancement, but they're > smart enough to not leave contact info ANYWHERE on their websites. They do have a form for sales inquiry, though. Of course, when I sen

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Re: Coding style

PTY wrote: > Bob Greschke wrote: > >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>>PTY wrote: >>> Which is better? lst = [1,2,3,4,5] while lst: lst.pop() OR while len(lst) > 0: lst.pop() >>> >>>A dozen posts, but nobody has

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

John Machin wrote: > On 18/07/2006 12:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > it seems that range() can be really slow: [...] > Some things to try: > 1a. Read what the manual has to say about the range() function ... what > does it produce? Indeed. Still, the addition of a __contains__ method to ran

Re: Coding style

Carl Banks wrote: > Patrick Maupin wrote: > >>PTY wrote: >> >> >>>It looks like there are two crowds, terse and verbose. I thought terse >>>is perl style and verbose is python style. BTW, lst = [] was not what >>>I was interested in :-) I was asking whether it was better style to >>>use len() o

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Hi, I am embedding python in a large application, written in C. To allow access to the internals of the app, I embedded python as recommended by the `extending and embedding'-document on python.org. Most functions that are now callable from python have fixed number of args and are easy to parse wi

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

On 2006-07-17, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Antoon Pardon wrote: >> >> What the language reference should have said IMO is that in case x >> is an attribute reference, index or slicing, the primary expression >> will be evaluated only once, as will be the index or slice in the >> two la

Re: Coding style

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Greschke wrote: > > >>I'd go even one step further. Turn it into English (or your favorite >>non-computer language): >> >>1. While list, pop. >> >>2. While the length of the list is greater than 0, pop. >> >>Which one makes more se

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

On 2006-07-17, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> On 2006-07-15, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> The problem with understanding augmented assignment is that it directs >>> the >>> compiler and inte

Re: How to use ParseTuple with unknown number of args?

With some more research on comp.lang.python I found that this topic has been discussed earlier to some extend. One recommendation was to use numpy. This would introduce an additional dependency which I try to avoid. The earlier posts generally highlight some specific feature of calling with array

Python linker

I love python - I use it as a utility language to complement my C# programming every day. However, the reason I do not use it as my primary language is - surprise, surprise - not its lack of static type checking, but the size of standalone executes (which embed the python runtime). Would it be po

Re: tkinter wm_delete_window

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:16:04 +0200, yvesd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello i want to intercept tkinter python system events like > wm_delete_window > and if possible for any window, but the newest code I've produced give > me > an error : > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Document

Re: Augument assignment versus regular assignment

Antoon Pardon wrote: > > Now maybe I'm just not bright enough, so maybe you can explain what > something like col['t'] is evaluated to in a statement like: > > col['t'] = exp In the notation given earlier, let us say that it would be this: namespace = col setitem(namespace, "t", exp) Note that

Re: What is a type error?

Marshall schrieb: > Chris Smith wrote: >> Joachim Durchholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I *think* I understand Marshall here. When you are saying "assignment", >> you mean assignment to values of attributes within tuples of the cell. >> When Marshall is saying "assignment", he seems to mean assi

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it seems that range() can be really slow: > if i in range (0, 1): RTFM on range() You're completely mis-using it here, using it with an if ... in ... test. The purpose of range() in Python is as loop control, not comparisons! It's not a SQL BETWEEN statement

Re: New SourceForge project: Diet Python!!!

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Getting and Setting Cookies

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Re: How to use ParseTuple with unknown number of args?

ondekoza wrote: > The earlier posts generally highlight some specific feature of calling > with arrays. Can someone point me to a piece of software, where sth. > like this is actually used? Python source/Objects/stringobject.c string_join would be an example if you only allow a list or tuple. Py

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

Grant Edwards wrote: > Using xrange as somebody else suggested is also insane. Sorry about that, I somehow got the misguided notion that xrange defines its own __contains__, so that it would be about the same speed as using comparison operators directly. I figured the OP might have a better rea

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Re: What is a type error?

Marshall schrieb: > No. The variable is the table, not the records. In your examples, yes. > Relations are not arrays. They are, in all ways that matter for aliasing: They are a collection of mutable data, accessible via selector values. > Records are not lvalues. Agreed, but they have identi

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Re: question about what lamda does

ok, i think i get it. pretty cool. thanks -sk Dan Bishop wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hey there, > > i have been learning python for the past few months, but i can seem to > > get what exactly a lamda is for. > > It defines a function. > > f = lambda x, y: expression > > is equivalent to

wanting

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Re: Capturing instant messages

Ed, It depends on what IM protocol the company is using. If there is more than one, your job might end up being quite complicated. You indicated port 5190 in your post, does it mean that the company is using only AOL IM? In general it seems like you would have to: 1) Capture the traffic 2) Decode

Re: question about what lamda does

Use it anywhere a quick definition of a function is needed that can be written as an expression. For example when a callback function is needed you could say: def callback(x,y): return x*y some_function(when_done_call_this=callback) But with lambda you could just write some_function(when_done_cal

Re: wanting

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Re: Dictionary question

Brian Elmegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At least it was clumsy to post a wrong example. This shows what = find clumsy. c=1 x=2 l=list() l.append(dict()) l[0][5]=0 l.append(dict()) for a, e in l[-2].iteritems(): # Can this be written better? if a+c in l[-1]: if l[-1][a+c

Re: win32com.client.Dispatch - understanding error messages

Duncan Booth wrote: > wrote: > > Does using an absolute URL for the url parameter help any? You've specified > a relative URL (i.e. the folder 12.5.81.49 under the current location). I don't know the answer to that question. I know that when I'm on the same workstation and I copy/paste the string

Re: Coding style

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > Patrick Maupin wrote: > > > >>PTY wrote: > >> > >> > >>>It looks like there are two crowds, terse and verbose. I thought terse > >>>is perl style and verbose is python style. BTW, lst = [] was not what > >>>I was interested in :-) I was asking

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

On 18/07/2006 7:22 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > John Machin wrote: >> On 18/07/2006 12:41 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> it seems that range() can be really slow: > > [...] > >> Some things to try: >> 1a. Read what the manual has to say about the range() function ... what >> does it produce? > > I

Re: Dictionary question

Brian, You can try the setdefault method of the dictionary. For a dictionary D the setdefault work like this: D.setdefault(k, defvalue). If k not in D then D[k] is set to defvalue and defvalue is returned. For example: In [1]: d={} In [2]: d.setdefault(1,5) Out[2]:5 In [3]: d Out[3]:{1: 5} In y

Re: win32com.client.Dispatch - understanding error messages

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Duncan Booth wrote: >> wrote: >> >> Does using an absolute URL for the url parameter help any? You've >> specified a relative URL (i.e. the folder 12.5.81.49 under the >> current location). > > I don't know the answer to that question. I know that when I'm on the > sa

Re: Recursive function returning a list

> Do you have any ideas? you could use a recursive generator, like def genAllChildren(self) : for child in self.children : yield child for childchild in child.genAllChildren() : yield childchild -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Dictionary question

Brian Elmegaard wrote: > for a, e in l[-2].iteritems(): > # Can this be written better? > if a+c in l[-1]: > if l[-1][a+c] l[-1][a+c]=x+e > else: > l[-1][a+c]=x+e > # I'd start with something like for a, e in l[-2].iteritems(): keytotal = a

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

John Machin wrote: > > range() and xrange() are functions. You are suggesting that 2 > *functions* should acquire a __contains__ method each? I trust not. Well, range is a function in the current implementation, although its usage is similar to that one would get if it were a class, particularly a

Re: Capturing instant messages

On Jul 18, 2006, at 7:36 AM, Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > It depends on what IM protocol the company is using. If there is more > than one, your job might end up being quite complicated. You indicated > port 5190 in your post, does it mean that the company is using only > AOL > IM? Yes, the

Re: Dictionary question

On 18/07/2006 9:51 PM, Brian Elmegaard wrote: > Brian Elmegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > At least it was clumsy to post a wrong example. > This shows what = find clumsy. > > c=1 > x=2 > > l=list() > l.append(dict()) > l[0][5]=0 > > l.append(dict()) > > for a, e in l[-2].iteritems(): > #

Re: Python on RedHat AS 2.1?

Jeremy Winters wrote: > All the stuff I've found personally are security patches for python > 1.5.2... which seems to be baked into the OS. > > I don't choose to use this OS... it is mandated by our IT dept. I > have no complaints other than this... > > Is there nobody in pythonland who has ins

Re: wanting

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Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

Andy Dingley wrote: > The purpose of range() in Python is as loop control, No, the purpose of range() is to create a list, as the docs state. http://docs.python.org/lib/built-in-funcs.html """ range(...) - This is a versatile function to create lists containing arithmetic progressions. """ Stef

Re: Python linker

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I love python - I use it as a utility language to complement my C# >programming every day. However, the reason I do not use it as my >primary language is - surprise, surprise - not its lack of static type >checking, but the size of standalone executes (which embed the

mkdir

I have been looking around for a while, but I haven't seen many examples of os.mkdir() Anybody have any experience with it, is a since deprecated function? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: mkdir

On 18 Jul 2006 05:45:48 -0700, westymatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been looking around for a while, but I haven't seen many > examples of os.mkdir() > Anybody have any experience with it, is a since deprecated function? Example here - - but it reall

Re: Python linker

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I love python - I use it as a utility language to complement my C# > programming every day. However, the reason I do not use it as my > primary language is - surprise, surprise - not its lack of static type > checking, but the size of standalone executes (which embed the

Re: wanting

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Re: mkdir

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Re: Dictionary question

John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. Put spaces around operators -- in general, RTFStyleGuide >http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008 I din't know it. Thanks. > Only you know what *really* meaningful names you should be using. I have better names in my running code. > mykey = a +

Re: Dictionary question

"Justin Azoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > last[keytotal] = min(last.get(keytotal), valtotal) > comes close to working - it would if you were doing max. Thanks, I think this would help. -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.web.mek.dtu.dk/Staff/be/be.html Rugbyklubben Speed Scan

Re: Dictionary question

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Re: wanting

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > arsl89 wrote: > >>hy gys i m wanting python programming language. >>plz snd me the backup of python >> > > Welcome to my bozo-list. > Note how the OP even abbreviates "arsehole" to "arsl" :-) regards Steve (to the original poster: sorry about all this humour at y

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Re: array alice of [:-0] ??

guthrie wrote: > Beginner question! :-) > > x=[1,2,3,4] > for i in range(len(x)): >print x[:-i] > > >>> [] > >>> [1,2,3] > >>> [1,2] > >>> [1] > > 1) The x[:-0] result seems inconsistent to me; > I get the idea that -0=0, so it is taken as x[:0] -> [] that's what you get. > 2) how

Re: array alice of [:-0] ??

On 18/07/2006 11:17 PM, guthrie wrote: > Beginner question! :-) > > x=[1,2,3,4] > for i in range(len(x)): >print x[:-i] > > >>> [] > >>> [1,2,3] > >>> [1,2] > >>> [1] > > 1) The x[:-0] result seems inconsistent to me; > I get the idea that -0=0, so it is taken as x[:0] -> [] > 2) how

Re: array alice of [:-0] ??

On 2006-07-18, guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beginner question! :-) > > x=[1,2,3,4] > for i in range(len(x)): > print x[:-i] > > >>> [] > >>> [1,2,3] > >>> [1,2] > >>> [1] > > 1) The x[:-0] result seems inconsistent to me; > I get the idea that -0=0, so it is taken as x[:0] -> [] T

Re: Coding style

Carl Banks wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>Carl Banks wrote: >> >>>Patrick Maupin wrote: >>> >>> PTY wrote: >It looks like there are two crowds, terse and verbose. I thought terse >is perl style and verbose is python style. BTW, lst = [] was not what >I was

Re: Recursive function returning a list

Boris Borcic wrote: >> Do you have any ideas? > > > you could use a recursive generator, like > > def genAllChildren(self) : > for child in self.children : > yield child > for childchild in child.genAllChildren() : > yield childchild Or how to *not* address the

Re: Python linker

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I love python - I use it as a utility language to complement my C# > programming every day. However, the reason I do not use it as my > primary language is - surprise, surprise - not its lack of static type > checking, but the size of standalone executes (which embed th

Re: wanting

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Re: wanting

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Re: Accessors in Python (getters and setters)

mystilleef wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>mystilleef wrote: >> >>>Gerhard Fiedler wrote: >>> >>> On 2006-07-15 06:55:14, mystilleef wrote: >In very well designed systems, the state of an object should only be >changed by the object. IMO that's not quite

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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Simon Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >spec wrote: >> Thanks, actually there are no args, is there something even simpler? >> >> Thanks >> Frank > >you could try os.system() > >>From the docs: > >system(command) . [more detai

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Re: Coding style

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Carl Banks wrote: > > Iterables, lists, arrays, and whatever else have overlapping uses, but > > bool(obj) behaves differently for different types, > > bool(obj) will mainly look for __len__(), then for __nonzero__(), then > return True. You can only call len(obj) on o

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Anyone know if there is a way to make slickedit tag the built in modules such as os and sys so that code completion and the like work? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

rounding of a decimal object

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Re: Accessors in Python (getters and setters)

mystilleef wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>mystilleef wrote: >>Please don't top-post >> >>>On State and Behavior: >>> >>>To understand objects in terms of state and behavior you need to >>>absolve yourself from implementation details of languages >>>and think at an abstract level. >> >> >>

Re: embedding executable code in a regular expression in Python

Hi, see below ... - Original Message - From: "Paul McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python To: Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 10:09 AM Subject: Re: embedding executable code in a regular expression in Python > Avi Kak wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Does regular expression proc

Re: question about what lamda does

so a lamda needs to stay at one expression, and use more than one lamda for more expressions ? i think i get it. sk Nick Vatamaniuc wrote: > Use it anywhere a quick definition of a function is needed that can be > written as an expression. For example when a callback function is > needed you cou

Re: Howto Determine mimetype without the file name extension?

Phoe6 wrote: > Hi all, > I had a filesystem crash and when I retrieved the data back > the files had random names without extension. I decided to write a > script to determine the file extension and create a newfile with > extension. [...] > but the problem with using file was it recognize

Re: Python linker

I develop shareware applications that need to be extremely slim (less than 1 MB is preferable). Delphi applications easily meet this requirement and I can expect end users to download the .NET framework (if they don't already have it!). However, I cannot expect users to download 3.5 MB. For corp

Re: Coding style

Carl Banks wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>Carl Banks wrote: >> >>>Iterables, lists, arrays, and whatever else have overlapping uses, but >>>bool(obj) behaves differently for different types, >> >>bool(obj) will mainly look for __len__(), then for __nonzero__(), then >>return True. You can

Re: range() is not the best way to check range?

Paul Boddie wrote: > Yes, he wants range to return an iterator, just like xrange more or > less does now. Given that xrange objects support __getitem__, unlike a > lot of other iterators (and, of course, generators), adding > __contains__ wouldn't be much of a hardship. Certainly, compared to > ot

Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Jul 17)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cameron Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >John Machin illustrates the rudiments of embedding: > > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/3189b10b83a

Re: Python linker

On 18 Jul 2006 08:01:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I develop shareware applications that need to be extremely slim (less > than 1 MB is preferable). > > Delphi applications easily meet this requirement and I can expect end > users to download the .NET framework (if they d

Re: array slice of [:-0] ??

Thanks all!! - guthrie wrote: > Beginner question! :-) > > x=[1,2,3,4] > for i in range(len(x)): >print x[:-i] > > >>> [] > >>> [1,2,3] > >>> [1,2] > >>> [1] > > 1) The x[:-0] result seems inconsistent to me; > I get the idea that -0=0, so it is taken as x[:0] -

Re: unicode html

Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Duncan Booth enlightened us with: >> Don't bother using named entities. If you encode your unicode as >> ascii replacing all non-ascii characters with the xml entity >> reference then your pages will display fine whatever encoding is >> specified in the HTTP headers. > > W

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